Re: 'vaginal synechiae'
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:04:23 -0600 (CST)
I'm so sorry for your experience. Her actions don't make any sense to
me. she shouldn't have known about the condition, even if it were there
and had no right to "treat" it, especially without permission from the
family.
Hope this helps and write back anytime for more information.
HSM
At Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Nicole wrote:
>
>When I was six years old, I was called to see the school nurse. She had
>me get undressed and she had her hands between my legs and pulled on me
>and tore me and put some kind of cream on me. It was an extremely
>traumatic experience. It had always seemed to me that what she did was
>not ok, because we were in an office on the floor - not in the nurse's
>office. But of course, I was only a kid, so maybe it was ok and I just
>was traumatized by it. In any case, 20 years later, I asked my mom
>about it. She's one of those people who saves everything, and she still
>had the note that the nurse had sent home with me that day. It said
>that I had been treated for "vaginal synechiae" I did a little bit of
>research on this to find out what it is, and then asked my mom if I had
>ever had any problems as a child that would seem relevant, and she said
>no.
>
>Anyway, all these years later, I'm still trying to understand what
>happened that day. So my question would be to a medical professional.
>If I had actually had that condition, would it have been an acceptable
>treatment for this nurse to have simply torn apart the place that was
>fused together? Would a nurse have been able to do that on her own
>without a doctor? If I wasn't having any problems with urination or
>anything like that, would a nurse have even found that kind of problem
>in a routine exam (at school) of a six year old? I can't recall a single
>other time in my childhood that a medical professional touched me there.
>
>Thanks for any help.
--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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